Instruction Manual

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Joystick Support

Surround Mixing

See also:

Automating Surround Panning

You can arm or disarm for automation all the controls in a surround panner

by clicking any control in the surround panner (except LFE Solo), and

choosing Write Enable from the popup menu.

See:

Surround Metering

Joystick Support

SONAR Producer allows you to use a joystick to control surround panning.

A force-feedback joystick such as the Microsoft® SideWinder® Force

Feedback 2 joystick can add a tactile element to mixing sessions, and add

button control to some SONAR transport and/or menu commands with the

extra buttons on the joystick module.

The joystick will grab the current pan position/sphere anytime you pull the

trigger button (the "firing" button under your index finger). When recording

automation, you write new automation every time you pull the trigger button.

Various joystick buttons can be used to:

• Control SONAR’s transport

• Switch focus to adjacent tracks/sends

• Solo/unsolo current channel

• Open/close the large surround panner window

To Connect the Joystick to SONAR Producer

1. Use the Options-Controller/Surfaces command.

2. In the Controller/Surfaces dialog, click the Add button , and choose

Joystick Panner in the Controller/Surface field of the Controller/Surface

Settings dialog; click OK.

3. Close the Controller/Surfaces dialog, and display the Controller/

Surfaces toolbar (Views-Toolbars-Controller/Surfaces command).